I have written several times about the dangerous romanticizing
of the Muslim Brotherhood by Roger Cohen of The NY Times. He
certainly was not alone at The Times in doing so, but this quote
from
February 3, 2011, surely puts him in a league of his
own:

Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution
for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and
Egypt’s Facebook-adept youth are not lining up...

In February 2011, Roger Cohen of The NY Times demanded
that we abandon the phrase “the
Arab Street” as a relic of the past which no longer
applied, even as crowds in Tunisia surged around a Synagogue
shouting “”Jews, remember Khyabar, the army of Mohammed is
returning””:

With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and
protesters battling the police in the streets here over the slow
pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued a sweeping decree on
Thursday night, granting himself...

The NY Times has whitewashed the anti-Semitic aspects of the
Arab Spring in Egypt since the beginning of the protests last
January. NY Times’ columnists like Roger Cohen have sought to
glamorize and glorify the so-called “Arab
Street” and Nicholas Kristof has waxed poetic about Islamist
forces in the Middle East.

In what will come as a shock to no one who lives in reality,
the revolutions throughout the Middle East, while sparked
in many instances by people who share western-style democratic
values, are turning Islamist, and the Obama administration is
dithering and accepting the outcome as a foregone conclusion: